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On March 25, 2025, J. D. Vance ironically texted “This chat’s kind of dead. Anything going on?” to a group of users on what messaging platform?
It gave its name to a -gate.
And by the way, did you know that silent reading was so uncommon before the Middle Ages that Saint Augustine devoted space in his fourth-century C.E. Confessions to how astounded he was by the way his mentor’s eyes “ran over the columns of writing and his heart searched out the meaning, but his voice and his tongue were at rest.”
Which prompts the question: Did the great Library of Alexandria hand out earplugs?
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